In response to Mr. Hudson’s opinion on immigration I would like to offer another point of view.
One of his reasons for reducing immigration to the U.S. was based off of a perceived lack of need for foreign labor.
He argued that unlike during the pre-WWI era we no longer need workers to swell the ranks of our labor force and to an extent I understand his reasoning.
However, our economy is no longer based on manual labor.
Instead we have become a country where a person’s mental strength is more important than their physical strength, and we live in a world where transcontinental interactions happen constantly.
We need the influx of foreign knowledge, cultural sensitivity and language expertise in order to remain a global leader in trade, communications, academics and multiple other fields where the exchange of ideas occur through interactions of people from different backgrounds and worldviews.
The argument could be made that the U.S. should then only accept qualified immigrants; those who have proven their value to American society.
The problem is that these few individuals for the most part remain in the urban areas of America where diversity already exists, not in small communities like The Dalles, Dufur and Maupin.
Through increasing the number of immigrants we greatly increase the likelihood of their joining rural communities.
It is especially important for our youth to learn to value and be challenged by ideas that come from entirely different worldviews.
Our kids must be ready to have informed conversations with people of different cultures or faiths and are handicapped by the isolation of living in a non-diverse community where most people look, think and act like them.
In a world where the exchange of varying view-points is upheld as a great asset we are doing more harm by preventing immigrants to our communities then we would be by allowing a relatively few disenfranchised individuals to cross our borders.
We need immigrants to challenge us and to give us a better understanding of what the world is like so that we can become better academics, employees and citizens.
There are a host of other reasons we should accept these immigrants, starting with the fact that they are of the human race and in reality, most do love this country and want to “become Americans in every way possible.”
They just might not be the white Americans you have in mind.
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